Re: TIBETANS SLAM DALAI LAMA PORTRAIT BAN AS PROVOCATIVE

There is every reason to ban the display of the portrait of DL

Would any government give prominent display to a collaborator of CIA  ?

Imagine a portrait of Quisling displayed at the British home  !!



"Thomas J Wheat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> TIBETANS SLAM DALAI LAMA PORTRAIT BAN AS PROVOCATIVE
> 2003-11-23
>
http://origin.rfaweb.org/front/article.html?service=eng&encoding=10&id=121479
> Tibet's government-in-exile has described as provocative a ban by the
> Chinese government on portraits of the Dalai Lama in two Tibetan areas
> in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, RFA's Tibetan service
> reports.
>
> Tibetans in Lithang and Karze have been warned they would lose their
> land unless they surrendered portraits of their spiritual leader by a
> mid-December deadline, according to the government-in-exile, based in
> Dharamsala, India.
>
> "Since His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the political and religious
> leader of six million Tibetans, it is very important to keep and
> display photos of His Holiness to show respect and devotion,"
> spokesman Sonam Norbu Dakpo told RFA in an interview.
>
> "We believe that such restrictions are aimed at provoking Tibetans to
> violent acts for the Chinese to suppress."
>
> He said the ban aimed to deprive Tibetans of their right to practice
> the religion of their choice, which is enshrined in the Chinese
> constitution.
>
> "There were also reports of the confiscation of land if photos of
> Dalai Lama are not surrendered by [the] deadline," he added.
>
> "This is a serious situation for local Tibetans whose livelihood and
> survival is dependent on land and livestock. The exile government
> would like to request that the Chinese government withdraw such
> restrictions."
>
> A local government official in Ganzi was quoted by Agence
> France-Presse as confirming the ban. "This order has been in existence
> for years," the agency quoted an official surnamed Li at the Ganzi
> Religious Affairs Administration as saying.
>
> The Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India in 1959 following a failed
> uprising against Chinese rule in Lhasa.
>
> China regularly accuses the 68-year-old monk of being a "splittist"
> and objects to his meetings with world leaders.
>
> The Dalai Lama is scheduled to meet this week in Rome with Pope John
> Paul II and address a conference alongside fellow Nobel peace laureate
> Mikhail Gorbachev.#####